The number in the sky turned to 99.
At the same time,
In the exiled zone, the Evil mainland was done hunting down all of the traitors.
The only thing left now was the planet of the level 3 civilization.
Entertainment Goddess and her team knew Seraphion and the man with blonde hair should show up soon, based on what they saw in the foresight.
And sure enough, when the now huge and powerful-looking Evil mainland moved towards the level 3 civilization to eat it, the man with blond hair appeared on its path!
But why would it care?
The Evil mainland, without stopping, tried to smash this speck of dust away and reach its destination.
But to everyone's surprise, the other party smiled and raised his hand, bringing the mainland to a sudden halt.
Seraphion, who was going to show himself, paused.
"That's information law..."
Selene shrugged,
"He should be Hyperman in his new body.
But, does it matter?"
Seraphion nodded and went out of the invisible domain of the Crystal.
His aura surged at this moment and spread everywhere, covering the whole exiled zone!
His teacher said, 'Show yourself, ' and so he did,
And as a result of that, the information Hypermind interrupted to stop the mainland, connected back to it, and the Evil mainland suddenly moved again, smashing Hypermind away!
But instead of continuing towards the level 3 civilization, The Evil Mainland paused, as if trying to figure out who this old man and his two companions are.
A brief moment later, in the merged universe, World Law's voice sounded.
[Guardian Saraswati, you are no longer the Guardian.
Seraphion is the new guardian now.]
And before Entertainment Goddess became speechless,
[ Guardian Saraswati, you are no longer the Fate representative.
Seraphion is the new Fate representative.]
Entertainment Goddess and her teammates,
"-_-"
What just happened?
Little mortal shook his head in disappointment,
"Look how ungrateful Fate is.
It saw someone with +100 million universe's support, and it abandoned the one with +3 million ...
So embarrassing."
And Seraphion, who suddenly lost control over his body,
"Interesting.
So this is the strongest Fated one I have in this era?"
His eyes were now glowing with the light of Fate.
When Fate saw that most of its Fated ones were missing, and there was a mysterious entity that could face the merged mainland,
It immediately possessed the first Fated one who had the power to actually face this unknown opponent.
At the same time, because Fate, through its connection with the world law in the exiled zone, saw through the guardian title of Seraphion, it sent two requests to the world law.
So the world law responded, and changed the temporary guardian with +3 million universe as support, to Seraphion with +100 million,
And when Fate took over Seraphion's body, he became Fate's representative, and Entertainment Goddess lost her title.
Hypermind, which was smashed away, slowly rose to the sky again, completely unscratched.
He immediately sent a secret message to Xyron,
< Plan A failed.
I can't face the Guardian.
Proceeding to Plan B.>
Plan A was letting Fate know that there are no Fated ones left, and there is an opponent that it can't face.
Hypermind believed such a big change in Fate's inevitability, even if not destroying it, can affect it enough so he can take control over it using his information law.
But Fate seems to be completely fine, as if nothing happened, and a strong Seraphion came out of nowhere, too!
Hypermind didn't dare to go and check the Fate source in the fair ground at this moment because that dimension was extremely dangerous due to it being connected directly to the dimension he feared the most.
He didn't know Fate's source was actually filled with cracks all over, and it could disintegrate at any moment if it weren't for Dark Law protecting it.
Either way, Plan A failed.
Xyron was ready to escape now.
The first part of Plan B was Hypermind negotiating with Fate, that if it failed too, they needed to run, which was Plan C.
If Plan B didn't fail, then they had a new teammate.
Hypermind stood above the level 3 civilization's planet, not getting close to Fate.
Fate was currently trying to read the mind of Seraphion and see what had happened in these years that they were in the exiled zone.
But it didn't matter how hard it tried, his memories were protected by an invisible force!
Fate was at a loss!
It tried to read the memories of the other two ancient ones, but it was the same.
"What's going on...?"
It couldn't understand at all.
Hypermind, who saw the confusion in Seraphion's face, said,
"How about we share some information?"
He spied on Fate for billions of years and could tell in one glance that Seraphion was now under Fate's control.
That's why he thought now it's the best time to start the conversation.
Seraphion frowned.
His eyes glowed slightly, and his eyebrows raised in surprise.
"How can you be a newborn with such strength and this unique body?"
And flew to Hypermind without fear.
Who would be scared of newborns in this world?
Before the arrival of a certain little monster, nobody.
Hypermind smiled,
"Take a look for yourself."
Seraphion, controlled by Fate, nodded with interest and tried to read Hypermind's memories.
This time, it didn't fail, and the memories of the other party weren't protected like the ancient ones.
Fate didn't know what it was watching now; it wasn't the complete truth.
In the memories, Fate didn't see anything related to Hypermind spying on it, and the main reason for him to gather all of the Fated ones had nothing to do with Fate and messing with its inevitability.
In the memories, Hypermind was only trying to study the emotions of living creatures, gather some scattered souls, fill the soul with only 'positive' emotions, and create a body with this soul that the world would accept.
A newborn body, to be exact.
And Xyron and the sinners' race were helping the former Hypermind in this mission, while trying to protect the underworld and the sealed realm between,
because a certain entity was affecting the world outside, and forcing the mainlands to walk in the 'Evil path'.
Who was this mysterious entity? They didn't know.
With information law, and his new body mixed partly with dark matter, Hypermind successfully deceived Fate with false 'information'.
Hypermind wasn't scared that he might be exposed by the ancient ones, because the third party in the dark was active behind the scenes, so the other party should already have thought of this possibility.
At the end, Fate even saw Hypermind's discovery about the guardian law, and the exiled zone that was already part of the guardian territory even before Seraphion became the guardian.
He wanted to know if Fate had any connection with the entity in the Dark, or not?
And it turned out Fate knew nothing because it became furious!
"Who is messing with my inevitability in the dark?
He is even worse than you guys!
No wonder I can't gain access to the memories of this body!"
Hypermind shrugged,
"I don't know about the inevitability you are talking about.
But it is evident that there is another 'secret guardian' out there, with more universes and mainlands under his or her control."
Now, Hypermind wanted to know if the 'Secret Guardian' and the one who gave him a letter are the same or not.
And Fate was the best choice to reveal the truth because of its deep connection with world law.
Fate turned silent.
Then smiled,
"Stay on my side, and I give you and those sinners a way out."
Hypermind chuckled,
"Sure.
It seems you already have a way to deal with the real guardian."
The moment he promised to stay with Fate, a golden mark appeared on Hypermind's forehead.
Hypermind became Fate's follower at this moment, and he couldn't resist its orders anymore.
It seems he was a special follower with this mark.
Seraphion smiled confidently,
"Now, let's deal with the 'rat'."
And muttered,
"I, Fate, request world law to deactivate the exiled zone's seal."
And after a brief moment,
[ Request has been accepted. ]
Something shattered at this moment.
The exiled zone was now again part of the world law outside, and the original law from the past mixed with the world.
"I, Fate, request world law to open the sealed realm between."
A ceiling suddenly appeared above their heads.
Many mysterious symbols were on its surface, and it had a shiny, solid, and unbreakable appearance.
"Be ready.
To take care of that rat, we need to clean up the things inside the sealed realm between."
Hypermind frowned,
"I heard from the ancient ones that there are some kind of invisible enemies inside that can't be detected!"
Seraphion chuckled,
"Don't worry about it.
With our current power, we can deal with them.
Even if there is a danger that threatens the world, the 'force' from above will interfere."
Hypermind nodded blankly, as if he didn't know what Fate meant.
But gulped down nervously inside.
Who could this 'force from above' be if not the same force that sealed the real sinners in those spheres?
But more importantly,
He was really dying to know what happened to the sealed area,
Why did he lose contact with the space inside, and how did the two ceilings not only repair but even strengthen?
Was it really related to Lilith?
At the same time, he was ready to intercept any information that might expose him to Fate.
The other two ancient ones were here too, and not to his surprise, they just watched them without doing or saying anything.
Hypermind knew they were probably forced to be silent by the third party in the dark, too!
While the seal was breaking, Seraphion looked at the universes above.
"Alright, let's see who is present and who is missing."
And tried to look for its Fated ones.
"All of them are alive, but they are stuck in the resurrection phase.
Is it your doing?"
Fate asked Selene and Vaelgrim, and the two nodded nonchalantly, as if they weren't scared of Fate or Hypermind at all.
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Fate frowned slightly when it saw their attitudes, but didn't care, and let the higher beings and managers resurrect and join them for the upcoming battle.
Hypermind became nervous inside.
He couldn't sense a single chip planted in the body of the confused higher beings who started resurrecting and coming to them from all over the place and different universes.
He looked at the two ancient ones and saw them just standing there in silence.
'The missing chips had something to do with them for sure, but where are they? How could they hide them even from me, the creator?
And why aren't they mentioning anything about the chips? Are they in the same team as me?'
Hypermind felt really confused...
Fate could go crazy if it found out about the chips that could allow him and the cyborgs to control its fated army.
But the chips were missing, and the ancient ones who for sure knew about them kept their mouths shut.
Soon, Fate summoned all of the Fated ones.
The only ones missing were Lubo and Lilith.
Even the Entertainment goddess and the rest who received the summon order joined to see the progress of Fate's movie up close.
Seraphion looked at the vulture, then at Entertainment goddess who had the guardian token with her.
"Vulture, you were supposed to be the guardian.
What happened?
Why did she have access to the guardian territory, and I mistook her for the real guardian?"
The Vulture was dumbfounded,
"What are you talking about?"
Fate,
"-_-"
Seraphion just waved his hand, and the guardian token flew to him.
The body he was controlling had the guardian title now, so it should have the guardian token too.
"And where is Lubo?"
He asked the crowd from the merged universe because they were supposed to advance to level 10, because Lubo was creating a planet that could host them.
This was part of Fate's inevitable future.
The crowd shrugged their shoulders,
"No idea."
"We didn't see him for a couple of months."
"Lubo is the boss, we aren't supposed to know about its whereabouts..."
"Who has the guts to ask where Lubo is?"
Fate and Hypermind both frowned.
Again, a group of nonchalant people who seem not to care who was in front of them.
And when Fate tried to take a look at their memories, it failed again.
It tried to look into the merged universe to find Lubo, but again, it failed.
The merged universe wasn't part of the guardian territory Seraphion was controlling,
But the former exiled zone and the universes here were part of the world anyway,
So, it checked with the world law to see who is the real guardian for this peculiar universe, and surprisingly received a name.
Mortal.
He looked at the crowd of fated ones and asked,
"Who is Mortal?"
Hearing the question, some gasped, some became excited, and some of them turned pale!
"Mortal is our Boss!"
"Mortal is a psychopath from hell!"
"Mortal is our teacher!"
"Mortal is the strongest!"
"Mortal is the twin brother of Motimus Memimos Moteldos."
"Mortal is our senior!"
"Mortal is everyone's ancestor!"
"Mortal is the mainland's troublemaker!"
"Mortal is..."
Both Fate and Hypermind felt dizzy hearing so many different answers!
Fate suddenly remembered something at this moment,
"Mortal, the strongest!
The same rude brat who wrote a letter to me and asked Lilith to read it!
Wait, where is Lilith? Why isn't she connected to me anymore?"
Fate immediately tried to connect to the underworld through the lava sea on the Evil mainland, but it couldn't do that either...
Hypermind, who listened to the noisy crowd talking about this 'Mortal' that even he himself watched his whole journey on the 10 planets and analyzed the information related to him,
Was puzzled as to why he was known by so many different names.
But Fate, that remembered him introducing himself in his letter, said,
"Mortal is a newborn!"
Hearing what it suddenly said, the crowd turned quiet.
Except those from the former Speedy mainland.
"Yes, he is, everybody knows that..."
"Who is this guy again?"
"I don't know, he talks like an ignorant person, saying something obvious that everybody knows..."
"Who is that old man? Should we slap his face for calling Queen Lilith by name?"
"Nah, he seems familiar, let him be for now."
"I think we saw him on the other side of that hidden passage the other day."
This time, Fate and Hypermind weren't the only ones who were at a loss for words; it was the same for everyone else, too.
That monster was a newborn?
Nobody believed it.
Hypermind shouted,
"Impossible!
He killed more than 60 million newborns and billions of 'citizens' on the 10 planets!
How could a newborn do such a thing?"
The crowd nodded in agreement.
The team of actors from the former Speedy mainland smiled mysteriously, but didn't say anything.
The crowd really wanted to beat this group of people up!
What's with their attitudes?
*Shatter*
At this moment of surprise, confusion, and uncertainty, the ceiling above their head started cracking.
Hypermind took a deep breath and looked at Seraphion.
Fate nodded,
"You are allowed to use the mainlands."
In Hypermind's memory, Fate saw what Xyron's secret project was and how it was related to the mainlands.
Now that they were going to face the sealed sinners, they needed to use everything at their disposal, so Fate allowed them to use the mainlands that the Evil mainland swallowed not long ago.
Planet Lubo.
Silver platform.
Little Mortal was now jumping up and down,
"Look! Look! Xyron is going to activate his secret project!"
As the activation began,
The black void of infinite space trembled.
The level 3 civilization's planet starts pulsing with unnatural energy—its surface was no longer 'bald', but covered by a lattice of living megastructures and shimmering antimatter veins.
Hypermind said with a hint of pride in his voice,
"This is an imitation of the 'Throneworld' from our Type 4 civilization.
A living machine that long ago abandoned biology for pure computational godhood, wielding the energy of countless laws!"
The crowd could feel the overwhelming law, in all kinds and amounts, spreading from the only planet in the exiled zone in all directions.
With a cosmic signal echoing across spacetime, the Evil mainland turned into 501 pieces.
One piece was the Evil mainland itself.
And the 500 smaller parts were the mainlands it ate, and now were separated from it.
Gravitational fields warp like ribbons around the 500 mainlands, time dilates, and space folds.
These mainlands, each reshaped into massive biomechanical constructs—arms of steel, lungs of plasma, wings of solar arrays— and converge toward the 'Throneworld'.
One by one, they collide not in destruction but in orchestration, fusing with precision.
Each mainland transformed into a new form!
Armor, wings of roiling storm energy; rocky bodies twist into vast limbs, bristling with weapons powered by unknown energy reactors.
The final piece was Hypermind's former body, the pulsing brain, that melted into the black core at the center of the former planet, and now was atop the god-like entity, Throneworld, pulsing with infinite thoughts.
The infinite space shuddered as the transformation completed.
Before the crowd now stood a titan, shaped like no god nor beast ever known.
Its voice is radiation, its breath solar wind.
What unfolds before the audience was not merely a machine, but a planetary final boss, an ascended apex of evolution and technology.
Throneworld spoke,
"We are unity. We are ascension. We are the end of all who defy the inevitable Fate!"
Little Mortal pushed his dropped jaw up and muttered,
"After such a cool entrance... why would you ruin it by flattering that silly Fate?"
But no one seemed to hear him.
Everyone just watched this work of art and technology with faces filled with shock.
The ceiling of the sealed realm at this moment finally broke, and brought the crowd back to their senses!
So many questions were in everyone's minds!
But before they could figure out who this blonde-haired guy was, how the 500 mainlands connected to the level 3 civilization, and why Seraphion seemed different,
Another important question was created!
What would they face in the sealed area that nobody except the ancient ones and some of the older mainland managers had the chance to experience dealing with in the past?
What they were trying to keep inside with feeding the Underworld with law for millions of years!?
The previous time, the battle ended with a complete defeat as a result.
What would be the outcome this time?
Soon, the ceiling was completely gone and turned to law, merging with the world again.
An empty space appeared in front of the vigilant crowd, who were ready to face the danger.
When they saw 'nothing', the ancient ones became even more vigilant!
Selene muttered,
"The spheres are gone!
The invisible enemies are out!"
Everyone tried to detect the presence of any creature inside this empty space using different methods after hearing what Selene said!
But to no avail.
Even Seraphion, controlled by Fate, supported by +100 million universes, couldn't.
So Fate tried to communicate with the law inside the sealed area to know where the enemy is!?
And sure enough, it received an answer.
At the same time, the loud and genderless voice of world law echoed through the empty space!
It was a congratulatory message to Guardian Mortal for bringing back the law essence from the sealed area!
Only now that the seal was opened, world law saw there was no sphere, and due to its connection with dark law, found out that the essence law stolen by those cyborgs was already back to it by a certain inactive guardian.
Little mortal in the script he wrote for Dark Law, and it asked for early merge as the price to play by his script, gave it permission to help world law, underworld law, and Fate, if they asked for it.
That's why world law immediately found out that the sealed realm was empty,
And when it tried to find who retrieved the essence law so it could congratulate the other party, it received an answer.
In normal circumstances, Dark Law wouldn't allow it to know, or even open the ceiling.
But now it was different, Dark Law had a script that needed to support, even though the Mainland trilogy was over, it didn't care and did what it promised.
The congratulations message was naturally going to be repeated 999 times in a row!
1 time for each sphere that was cleaned up, and the World law was only now found out about!
Hypermind was shaking from shock and anger at this moment because he finally knew how he lost everything,
and how he was played by the other party to make him think there is still hope!
There were two strengthened ceilings, but nothing inside at all!
He was completely fooled!
Fate was shaking with anger, too, but for a different reason!
This Mortal actually changed its inevitable future to such an extent that there was no ending left at all!
Everything was already over without its notice!
The 'Fate source' in 'fair ground' was now shaking violently, and for sure it would be destroyed at this exact moment if not for external protection.
The ancient ones were shaking too, but not from anger, instead from excitement!
Their teacher once told them there is no side.
Now they understood the meaning!
He already cleared the sealed area and killed the two forbidden existences.
What was left for Fate to do?
The crowd looked at each other awkwardly.
Even Xyron, who transformed in such a cool manner, was flabbergasted.
What was he preparing for all these years?
What hypermind was preparing for?
And what Fate was preparing for?
It seems to the man operating in the 'shadows' as a secret Guardian, none of that mattered.
The crowd only stood in silence.
The world law was repeatedly sending its congratulatory messages, going on their nerves.
Fate, annoyed, furious, and humiliated, sent another request to the world law.
Now it didn't care if the one who ended the story and saved the world was a newborn or not.
The only thing that mattered to it was its role as the true savior, which was snatched from it.
While it couldn't do anything to the other party or even find him,
It knew he was the real guardian, and there was an easy way to give him a lesson!
That's why it sent a message to the world law, asking for the ceiling of the underworld to open too!
....
Silver platform.
Lilith received a message from the underworld.
It was notifying her about the world law's request, asking it to open the seal.
Underworld's ceiling was under the underworld control, and world law above couldn't open it.
Receiving the message, Lilith rejected it when she saw that the one requesting the underworld wasn't really the world above, but an 'unknown source' was the real applicant.
Then she looked at the sofa where Little Mortal was sitting.
He was dozing off now because of the congratulatory messages that kept repeating, and the movie was in a stalemate.
"Partner!"
Lilith called him, and he jolted awake,
"What? Did they find something to fight?"
But to his disappointment, there was still no movement, and only the world law's annoying messages echoed through the world.
"What is it, partner?
Why did you wake me up if nothing is happening?"
"I just received a message from the underworld to let it open the ceiling."
"Okay... ?"
"I rejected it."
"Okay...?"
"The real entity requesting it was Fate!"
"Okay...?"
Lilith felt like exploding!
The repeated 'Okay' mixed with repeated world law messages made her head dizzy.
"What do you mean, okay?
Can't you tell what Fate is going to do?"
*BAM*
Little Mortal jumped behind the sofa, taking cover!
At this moment, Seraphion suddenly attacked the red fiery ceiling that had just appeared above their heads in the place of the previous ceiling!
Looking at his face, it was filled with anger!
Fate was pissed now!
It couldn't read anyone's memory,
It couldn't connect to the most mysterious universe connected to the evil mainland,
It couldn't find the master mind behind all of the changes in its inevitable future,
And now, its request to open the ceiling was rejected by the underworld?
World law, underworld law, and Fate were the three parts of one body!
And it was just rejected by part of its own body?
Because of who?
Lilith! A former fated one!
Just thinking about these things made Fate more and more furious, punching and slashing the ceiling with Seraphion's great sword, trying to break it by force!
Hypermind, who saw this, joined the fun too.
He was really curious to see what was happening in the underworld, which was supposed to be in a bad condition.
Lilith ignored the two and said,
"Partner, I think your guardian title will be on the line if the ceiling breaks!"
Little mortal nodded,
"I know."
"What do you mean by 'I know'?
Wouldn't everything and everyone be in danger if you lose your title?"
"I don't care."
Lilith,
"..."
She couldn't believe her ears!
"You are affected, aren't you?"
An old voice sounded at this moment, and an old man emerged from the silver platform.
Seeing who he was, Little Mortal's jaw dropped!
Lilith was in shock!
Rose was surprised!
The white canary was going to attack, but stopped!
And the Goddess of memory, who just came out of a passage, froze!
Her notebook once told her that if she needs protection, find Mortal, Lilith, Rose, or Entertainment Goddess, and it will be fine if she is at least close to one of them.
So when she saw Seraphion and the blonde-haired guy going crazy, she came here for 'protection'.
When Fate called for its fated ones, she naturally wasn't in the list and was left behind.
But the moment she came here, she faced this weird situation.
"Lubo?" x 4
Lilith, Rose, the White cacary, and Little Mortal recognized the old man who was looking exactly like Heavenly Father.
Lubo, reborn again in his new look, nodded,
"That's me.
I think Heavenly Father had too much effect on me, or because my body was partly originated from Mortal, my old version turned to be like this..."
He himself was speechless.
"But that's not important.
What's important is you, Mortal.
You are under the effect of my resentment, aren't you?
How else could you, a newborn, ignore the possible disaster that we might face?"
Little mortal chuckled in the midst of the black smoke rising from his body,
"So?"
Lilith gritted her teeth,
"Partner! I know what kind of person you are!
Newborn or not, you would never put the lives of others in danger!
Why are you doing this?"
Little Mortal sighed, and his smile faded away.
"The reason is simple...
I always looked for a worthy opponent.
Someone who can match me.
But I just got stronger and stronger so rapidly that before I knew, even the world itself couldn't handle me...
Even when I was happy that I had the ability to create another me, and at least fight myself, things didn't go as I thought.
When I fought with myself only at level 100, the world immediately tagged me as forbidden...
Can you believe it?
I hadn't even started!"
Little mortal looked at the crowd with a disappointed face, shook his head, and sighed again.
But his lips slowly curled up, and became more and more excited as he spoke,
"But who knew an opportunity would show itself to me?
The opportunity that can make me weaker!
You know what I mean, right!?
If others can't get stronger, can't I become weaker instead?
Can't I find an opponent this way?
Can't I feel the excitement of a real battle if I'm as weak as my opponent?
If I lose my title, I will downgrade to level 85, and whoever becomes the next guardian might have a chance against me!"
Lilith, Lubo, and the goddess of memory didn't know what to say.
The child crystal vibrated, saying what they wanted to say,
Little mortal, with his head low, walked away, while muttering,
"I lost my mind, not today... but billions of years ago..."
And disappeared.
Only some black smoke remained behind.
Lubo closed his eyes.
Tears start streaming down his face.
After separating from his resentment, the reborn Lubo felt his emotions were out of control.
He came out of the 'Fate Cocoon' a month ago.
But upon emerging from it, he started crying nonstop for a whole week.
Everything he had devoured in his life and didn't care about was now like an unforgivable sin for his new self.
There was no resentment left in him from the past to bury the feeling of guilt.
That's why every time he remembered one of his sins, he would start crying.
Just recently, he gained some control over his emotions, but because of what Little Mortal said,
He remembered what he did to him in the past after he devoured his heart, and his tears started streaming down again!
Lilith looked at the crying Lubo, frozen goddess of memory that the adult notebook was with her now, and always calm and reliable Rose, and said,
"I don't know what's wrong with my partner.
But he didn't say we can't stop Fate.
So.... let's go, ladies!
Let's stop this madness!"
And she left through an underworld gate while dragging Rose and the speechless goddess of memory with her!
The White canary looked at the team of three ladies who had left and remembered a certain foresight.
It couldn't help but chuckle to itself.
A brief moment later, Lubo stopped crying and opened his eyes.
Now, you could only see one word in his eyes!
[Determination!]